In real estate investing, the value of a freehold or leasehold asset.

Alternative Investment Market (AiM) is the London Stock Exchange's global market for smaller, growing companies.

Association of Investment Companies. This is a collective association for UK investment trust companies.

The investments and cash held by an investment trust company.

The distribution of assets across a variety of geographic regions, asset classes or sectors.

The UK’s central bank, responsible for the country’s monetary policy.

A market in which prices fall over an extended period.

A target against which investment performance is measured. A benchmark is usually an index or the average performance of other similar funds.

Investment trust shares are sold via the stock exchange at the bid price. This price is determined by supply and demand.

The shares in companies with the highest status as investments.